{"id":17257,"date":"2017-11-02T13:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=17257"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:51:57","slug":"new-web-exhibit-shines-light-role-lantern-slides-played-canadian-missionary-efforts-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/new-web-exhibit-shines-light-role-lantern-slides-played-canadian-missionary-efforts-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A new web exhibit shines a light on the role lantern slides played in Canadian missionary efforts in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        A new web exhibit shines a light on the role lantern slides played in Canadian missionary efforts in China\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Chloe-Dennis-on-Co-op.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Chloe-Dennis-on-Co-op-240x320.jpg\" alt=\"Chloe Dennis in front of a computer monitor examining a photo in her hands\" class=\"wp-image-17259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Chloe-Dennis-on-Co-op-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Chloe-Dennis-on-Co-op-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Chloe-Dennis-on-Co-op-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Chloe-Dennis-on-Co-op-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Chloe-Dennis-on-Co-op-360x480.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of her co-operative education placement with Carleton University Library\u2019s Archives and Research Collections, undergraduate student Chloe Dennis was charged with creating an online exhibit that would highlight the collection of lantern slides\u2014that is, photos or images that were printed on glass and projected with light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This collection of lantern slides was donated to the archives by John William Foster, who acquired the slides as part of his research into Christian missionary work in China. Used as an educational and recruitment tool by Canadian churches and missionary groups in an effort to generate interest in their missions in China, these striking images of are now the focus of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/arc.library.carleton.ca\/exhibits\/john-william-foster-fonds-lantern-slides\">web exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/undergraduate\/co-op\/\">Chloe\u2019s co-op work-term placement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of her co-operative education placement with Carleton University Library\u2019s Archives and Research Collections, undergraduate student Chloe Dennis was charged with creating an online exhibit that would highlight the collection of lantern slides\u2014that is, photos or images that were printed on glass and projected with light. 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